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The Wii is a home video game console produced by Nintendo.

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Any ideas to make IR LEDs identifiable during position-tracking?

Background Johnny Lee demonstrated various interesting ideas (detailed, e.g., in this video as well as this page) that take advantage of the Infrared camera from a Wii-Remote. The IR camera has 1024X768 resolution, and is designed to position-track…
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Connect Wii balance board pressure sensor to an Arduino

We have a Wii balance board pressure sensor and were wondering how we could connect this sensor to an Arduino board. On the circuit board (see picture) of the Wii Balance Board are Japanese characters printed, only those are pointing out which…
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stopping servos

hey i have just about finished my code but im finding it dificult to get the last bit working. So far i have two codes one for taking wii nunchuck data sending through radio then another for picking that up and transfering to two servos. My question…
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Connecting the Wii remote to a computer via Bluetooth

How do i connect a Wii remote to my Mac via Bluetooth?
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Using a Wii Nunchuck for data collection

Anyone got a good tutorial on using and Arduino to capture the Wii Nunchuck accelerometer data?
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using the Wii Sensor bar in a project

I'd rather not destroy any of my Wii kit, so I'm wondering if anyone knows what voltage I should drive the Wii Sensor bar with if I wanted to use it as an IR transmitter for a project. If you're feeling extra helpful, any recommendations for low…
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Wii remote as ir signal detector

Hi am currently looking at creating an IR remote control for a robot but i need something that i can use to monitor the signal so i was think that a wii remote has a IR cam in it so i can use that to report back to my pc the signal that my remote is…
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Wheatstone gauge factor calculation?WII load cell

Currently working with the WIIFIT or WIbalance load cell. For some reason everybody wants to work with these load cell. However, there are no actual datasheet of the load cell used in the device. There are datasheet of imitation load cell(MLC714N),…
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Measuring power consumption of Wiimote adapter not working, what am I doing wrong?

When I try to measure the power consumption of various Wiimote accessories, the multimeter only says 0.0mA, so I wonder if I'm doing it wrong. Here's how I measure: A more detailed explanation: Like I said, I wanted to measure the power consumption…
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4 full bridge load-cells with the HX711

I'm trying to hook up the load cells from a Wii fit balance board to an esp8266 using the HX711 ADC. Ideally, a way using only one HX711 but, a hookup guide for two HX711 with two load cells apiece would be helpful as well.
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Inputs to a Wiimote using a microcontroller

I've seen various methods of grabbing inputs and sensor data from Wiimotes and Wii Nunchuks as standard Bluetooth HIDs into microcontrollers like the Arduinos, but is there a way of sending button presses (say, for an Intelligent Agent running on an…
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